![]() ![]() In addition to the turbulent experience of war and combat, the protagonists’ experiences are amplified due to rampant discrimination. Rio, who hoped to be assigned as a driver, is appointed to fight on the front lines, Frangie works hard to become a medic, but her gender and skin color are frequently unjustly protested, and multi-lingual Rainey is assigned to work in intelligence. After their enlistments, the girls begin their training, but nothing will prepare them for the atrocities of the actual war. Grant displays the struggles of wartime and the toll it takes on the human spirit.Īlthough each girl has her own personal reason for enlisting, their tenacity is unparalleled. ![]() ![]() Despite this, Front Linesotherwise reads as a work of historical fiction. ![]() However, the fictitious premise obfuscates the reality that there were in fact female soldiers fighting for the United States in World War II. Grant succeeds in aptly portraying the time period appropriately despite a more “modern” concept. The story features the narratives of three teenaged female soldiers which occasionally converge: Rio Richlin, a California farm girl, Frangie Marr, an African-American girl from Oklahoma, and Rainy Schulterman, a Jewish girl from New York City. In Front Lines, Michael Grant re-imagines a World War II where female soldiers are allowed to enlist in the United States army. ![]()
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